Tripartite collaboration - What? Why? and How

Abstract

In this era of 'innovate or perish' it is essential for all industries to be innovative not only in product design but also in manufacturing technology to be competitive in quality and productivity as well. A 'Technological Free Ride' through adaptation of technology, re-engineering, and utilizing freely available 'technology seeds' through 'Development Research' is a must for rapid industrialization and jump to knowledge based era. This is the experience of many countries including USA, Japan, Korea etc. It is clear that our priority should be 'Development Research' to exploit the 'massi ve knowledge front' and millions of 'Technology seeds' awaiting to be converted to technology, and not 'basic' or "academic' research. Further, no invention or innovation can be converted to tangible products unless a well developed design and manufacturing base is available. This is a must even at early stages of industrialisation too where manufacture may be with imported technology. This is the experience of many NISs too. Our industry lacks even basic facilities in many critical areas as well, which must be corrected through proper incentives